THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTMAS

By: Raymond Carrington

Christmas
is the most wonderful holiday of the year.Right?Originally Christmas was
celebrated on January 6th but was changed in the year AD 354 to
December 25th.December the
25th prior to the Christian appointment was the celebrated holiday
for the Sun God Attis and the Roman festival of Saturnalia.Saturnalia was the festival celebrating
Saturn the god of peace and prosperity, Romans of all social standing exchanged
gifts at this festival and flowers were used to decorate buildings and squares
(Alan Williams, 2000).

The
Bible states that on the night of Jesus’s birth the Shepherds were outside guarding
their flocks when an angel told them to go to the manger (Luke).Biblical Scholars and weathermen alike state
that in December Shepherds are in off season, because it is too cold to be
outside all night, and it’s more likely that Jesus was born in the spring
between March and May. Which makes God a Taurus instead of a Capricorn and he
may have been born on the cusp so Jesus may have had some Aires traits. It is
known however that according to set dates which are 1BC, Jesus was born five
years after the death of King Herod.This little nugget of knowledge is not accurate to the story.Not only is the day wrong but the year also.Is anyone’s brain hurting yet?

The
Pope hired a guy to figure out the dates so that we could have an accurate
count of time from Jesus’s death and the guy’s name was Dionsius Exiguus.
Dionsius wasn’t very good in math and may have missed the date of birth by as
much as 30 years and that’s either side of the birth.I guess the Pope shouldn’t have taken the
lowest bid on that job because the calendar was in use too long to change by
the time Dionsius’s mistake had been discovered.No refunds asshole.

Amazing
really that God would come to earth to enrich the lives of man and no one
thought that maybe we should keep some accurate records on this event. I mean
what about the Wise Men?“What have you
been up to Wise Man?”“Oh nothing much
just traveled across a continent to meet God face to face.” “Really Mr. Wise
Man when did you do that?” “Oh I don’t remember sometime last year.”“Wow Mr. Wise Man are you going to write that
down?” “No, I’ve got too much going on right now maybe next week.” Really?Really?

You
all know that the tree and the Yule log was a Pagan Stone Hinge thing.The Nativity was from Italy and the missile
toe was Celtic.Regardless of your
beliefs, I don’t care if anyone worships Jesus or celebrates Christmas but this
next quote is to me the meaning of the Christmas Spirit and I hope that all of
you agree.Regardless of your opinion
this quote sums up my outlook towards the Christmas Spirit.

The
modern Christmas, in which believer and unbeliever may join in feasting, is one
of the triumphs of tolerance born of human understanding natured over centuries
of trial and error.

Christmas is the feast, of not only man’s redemption,
but of man himself. It is the feasting of humankind, because it releases – if
only for a few days every year – emotions that a savage self-interest causes
mankind, in the ordinary way, to repress.

At Christmas-tide tyrants grow benevolent – even merciful,
misers spend, not only freely, but willingly, the fierce flames of religious
and political prejudice die for a short while to a cold cinder; selfish
memories are stirred by the recollection – tardy, but intense – of the
neglected and the outcast.

For a few days, once a year, the atrophied souls of
the grownups are filled again with that spirit which inspires the wisdom of
fools and children.

So the history of Christmas, unlike the history of
so many other human things, is consistently a pleasant one.

Author unknown

I
like that however I will stay away from that Dionsius math.

On
a completely different note:I’m really
a big fan of Alan Streets, he’s a New York City Street Painter and has
experienced some success even while struggling with Schizophrenia.I think he’s such a great painter and I have
kind ofbecome an admirer of his work.Graffiti art is my favorite art and his
canvas paintings are amazing. They did a documentary on him and you can Google
a lot of info on him.He’s one to watch.